Evening Star Newspaper, March 18, 1932, Page 10

BARRETT DENIES LOBBYING CHARGE Calls Wilbur Unfair in Crit- icism of Activities Against Interior Bill. Charged by Secretary Wilbur with lobbying against the Interior Depart- ment supply bill, Charles S. Barrett, former president of the National Farm- ers Union, replied tocay with the dec- laration that the charge was “unfair” to those associated with him. Barrett's statement was in answer to & letter trom Wilbur after the former had recommended abolition of the In- terfor Department. Wilbur said this proposal was intend- en to influence the War Minerals Re- lief Gommission, which the Secretary said had a claim before it in which Barrett was interested The claim before the commissicn, of which Wilbur is ex-officio chairman, involves claims of Chestatee Pyrites and Chemical Corporation of Atlanta, | growing out of war time contracts. Barrett, who lives in Union City, Ga., said his associates, whom he named as Lee Ashcraft, Mell Wilkinson and George L. Pratt, had pressed the claim for 14 years, and had been sustained by the Supreme Court, adding “I do feel that the Secretary of In- terior laid an unfair charge against these gentlemen to accuse them of be- ing in a lobby when they are only here now, as they have been for the past 14 ears, trying to get a department of e Government to perform a reason- able and just duty.” “As for being a lobbyist,” Barrett said, “I never received a penny in my entire lifetime for helping to promote 8 bill or defeat a bill before Congress or any other legislative body.” JUNIORS TO GIVE PLAY Oakton High School Program Is Set for Tomorrow Night. Special Dispatch to The Star. OAKTON, Va., March 18.—The junior class of the Oakton High School will present the play, “At the Side of the Pewter Jug,” tomorrow night at 8:15. The entertainment will be in the audi- | torium of the Oakton High School and under the direction of Miss Doris Willis. ‘The members of the cast are: Irene Manville, Evelyn Coyner, Kathleen Anderson, Frances Waple, Lucille Wright, Doris Miller, Bernard Speer, Arthur Thompscn, Wayne Snyder, Cyrel Miles and O'Neil Sutfin. Special music will be furnished be- tween acts by the High School Or- chestra. THE EVENING Passengers Quit Doomed Vessel STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 1932. CANADIAN STEAMER HITS TEST IN PSYCHOLOGY LEADS TO ROMANCE Mergery Latimer, Authoress, and Jean Toomer, Poet and Psychol- ogist, Married Last October. By the Associated Press. CARMEL, Calif, March 18.—An ex- periment in psychology which developed | & romance as well as material for two books was disclosed here yesterday in the announcement of Mergery Latimer, authoress, and Jean Toomer, poet and psychologist, of their marriage in Port- age, Wis,, last October. Taking up residence here for their honeymoon, Mr. and Mrs, Toomer dis- closed that they had fallen in love Barbara Stone’s ILSON has gone limit to make while he was conducting an experi- ment in Portage by confining several couples to & small cottage for a given length of time and observing their re- actions. ‘Toomer said the number of subjects varied between 8 and 30 and all were of the “intellectual type.” Married | couples were included among the sub- jects for chaperoning as well as for observation, he said. ‘The poet-psychologist said the reace | tion drew him toward Miss Latimer, who was one of the subjects, and that the authoress reciprocated his feelings. | Toomer is writing a_book about the | experiment and Miss Latimer, author of several novels, is using the experi- ence as a plot for a book-length story. Ceylon's Gas Tax High, COLOMEO (#).—A gasoline tax of 22 cents a gallon is part of Ceylon's new | fiscal burden. 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A formal statement by the depart- ment pronounced thete was ro truth whatever in the article and that none of the Senate remarks raade on_ the basis of it had any foundation what- soever. Earlier, after Democratic members | had seethed and stormec, Senator Reed, Republican, Pennsylvania. had told the Senate the President authorized him to deny there was any truth in the story, which appeared in the Washington Post. Net result of the incident was a re- assertion of the congressional opposition to any plan for scaling down the war obligations of foreign nations to the United States. The House heard a pre- diction by Democratic Leader Rainey that none of the 3270.000,000 due this country in the year after the present moratorium expires will be paid. 50 SPIES EXECUTED 30,000,000 GO BAREFOOT Czechoslovakian Shoe turer Would Reform India. CALCUTTA, India (#)—Thomas Bata, the millionaire Czechoslovakian shoe manufacturer, thinks it a shame that 30,000,000 Indians go barefoot. 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